Top positive review

MISSIONARY is like FATAL ATTRACTION on steroids. The setting and background for this movie - Mormon proselytizers - is merely a vehicle for the warped psychopathology of one of them who dreams of a "united celestial family". Mitch Ryan (who plays the role of Elder Brock) is certainly highly credible as a youthful Mormon under the tutelage of fellow Mormon, Elder Whitehall. After what appeared to be a completely unsuccessful attempt to make any inroads with a woman named Katherine (separated at the time from her husband Ian, played by Kip Pardue), the situation suddenly reverses when Katherine's son Kesley gets some unexpected football help from Brock. A fall in the mud, a borrowed change of clothing, and a glance at a semi-nude young man, creates a domino effect that attracts Katherine's attention and stimulates her need and desires. One thing leads to another and, before you can say Utah, the two are entwined in a torrid affair. In the meantime, Katherine's husband wants to get back together which leads to a deadly and conflicted triangle. The rapidity with which Katherine and Brock's relationship evolved was then blunted and collapsed even more quickly. But Brock wasn't taking "NO" for an answer. Katherine then discovers the true nature and past of her would be lover/stalker. What follows is a rollercoaster ride of physical, emotional, and psychological conflict involving all major protagonists (with Kesley caught in the whirlpool). How it all comes to an explosive conclusion, I leave to the viewer. But make no mistake about it. There is plenty of gore and lethal action, not to mention a goodly number of F-bombs.A pet rabbit in a pot of boiling water a la "Fatal Attraction" is nothing compared to what happens in "Missionary". As a final aside, this movie takes place in Florida where "stand your ground" and personal ownership of guns is the prevailing mentality - a fitting backdrop to the violence seen in MISSIONARY. Where are the "Jehova's Witnesses" when you need them?

Top critical review

Creepy missionary man gone bad and stalks the wife and mother he has come to know and love. Nice little sleeper movie about a missionary man who after spending some intimate time with a woman and her son he becomes dangerously close to them. It is your usual obsession type movie on a small budget, but this is the performances that make the movie work. Kip Pardue plays an attractive missionary man who seems nice on the outside, but holds several secrets deep down. His target is a woman and her son who are estranged from her husband, but as the movie goes along she slowly is finding her way back to him much to the dismay of the missionary.

Some intense moments, some spicy sex scenes and nice action wrap up this movie. While it could be just your basic lifetime network late night thriller Kip Pardue's performance pushes it over the edge.

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Creepy missionary man gone bad and stalks the wife and mother he has come to know and love. Nice little sleeper movie about a missionary man who after spending some intimate time with a woman and her son he becomes dangerously close to them. It is your usual obsession type movie on a small budget, but this is the performances that make the movie work. Kip Pardue plays an attractive missionary man who seems nice on the outside, but holds several secrets deep down. His target is a woman and her son who are estranged from her husband, but as the movie goes along she slowly is finding her way back to him much to the dismay of the missionary.

Some intense moments, some spicy sex scenes and nice action wrap up this movie. While it could be just your basic lifetime network late night thriller Kip Pardue's performance pushes it over the edge.

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I sincerely enjoyed the premise of this film; young, Mormon missionaries embroiled in steamy sex scenes with frustrated housewives. Who wouldn't want to see that? Right? The first part of "Missionary" is truly entertaining. I was engrossed in its bucolic debauchery and was impressed with the cast and acting. But, I think the screenwriter over estimated the appeal of being stalked by a religious freak. The denouement was predictable and boring, a let down. However, the ethereal final scene was creative and unexpected. I wish the writer had more confidence in the audience to have added more of these freakish, Latter-Day Saint flashes. All in all, I wouldn't recommend "Missionary" if you're looking for anything but a run-of-the-mill stalker film.

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Now I see Mormons in a whole new light: quasi-humans with some emotions and hidden carnal desires but yet with sophisticated (sarcastic) geographical planning/mapping skills (probably GIS certified) to purposefully convert non-believers in a certain region in an attempt to save the world. Thank goodness! Side note: his tie clip should have been used as an adult toy - that would have improved the film.

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Aside from the plot, acting, and script, this movie is completely incorrect, and unrealistic on a basic level. The basic set-up, and lead up to the supposed “encounter” would not have ever occurred. It’s just not the way things are done, EVER, so the plot is like a volcano spewing down into the earth instead of up, or like Sandra Bullock floating around in space and magically bumping into another satellite that just happens to be “open” and have what she needs to take her to immediately get back to earth….right next to the shore of a beautiful tropical island. It’s completely unrealistic.

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Katherine (Dawn Olivieri) is a struggling mom with a 12 year old son Kelsey (Connor Christie). She is separated from her cheating husband Ian (Kip Pardue) who is attempting to get back into her good graces. Meanwhile, she is visited by some Latter Day Saints missionaries, one of whom she starts seeing romantically. Kevin (Mitch Ryan) is ten years younger than her and has difficulty adjusting his master cosmic plans when Ian comes back into the picture and he is left out.

This is your typical jilted lover/stalker film except it is a Mormon in the bad guy role. Nice little twist, but the film is nothing extraordinary.

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from the first scenes of a man riding a bicycle intercut with the film titles to the first shots of the mom character skimpily clad in Victoria Secret type panties, film just did not appeal to me, at all. filmmakers obviously went for the sex exploitation angle and in addition, have no idea how to tell a film story well